Krillion Recorded answers
6,515 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from size classes instead of from memory of famous animals. Sketch the handful of mammalian orders in which adults commonly weigh under a few hundred grams, then walk each order's family list and pull one or two names per family. Field-guide indexes, national species checklists and museum collection catalogues are the richest sources, because they supply the long descriptive names that casual players never reach. Build a long list rather than a short one: quantity matters here, so aim for twenty or thirty candidates before you start judging them. Where a species has several common names, submit the most formal one. Finally, keep an eye on spelling, since hyphenated and transliterated forms are usually accepted.
Get a hint
Start from body mass rather than from familiarity: list the mammalian orders in which adults routinely weigh less than a few hundred grams, then work downward through them.
A little more
Harvest names from regional mammal checklists and museum species lists; long compound common names built from a place plus a body feature are a strong signal of a valid, rarely given entry.
One step further
Chase the oddities too: species known from a single mountain range, a cave survey or a recent taxonomic revision often carry the highest value, and hyphenated or transliterated forms are accepted.
Reveal answers 6,515
- Rowley's Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Royal antelopeDeep Cut85points
- Royle's Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Royle's PikaDeep Cut85points
- Rudd's Bristle-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Ruddy MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Rufous BettongDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Brown LemurDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Hare WallabyDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Rufous SengiDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Trident BatDeep Cut85points
- Rufous Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Ruidoso Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Rümmler's Brush MouseDeep Cut85points
- Rumpi Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Rungwe Dwarf GalagoDeep Cut85points
- Rupicolous African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Rupicolous GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Rupp's African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Rupp's Ethiopian RatDeep Cut85points
- Rüppell's BatDeep Cut85points
- Rüppell's Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Rüppell's foxDeep Cut85points
- Rüppell's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Ruschi's Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Russet Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Russet Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Russet Hairy-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Russet Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Russian DesmanDeep Cut85points
- Russian MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Rusty AntechinusDeep Cut85points
- Rusty PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-spotted GenetDeep Cut85points
- Ruwenzori Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Ruwenzori Sun SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Rwandan Shaggy RatDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori Otter-shrewDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori Shaggy RatDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Ryukyu Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Ryukyu Islands Tree RatDeep Cut85points
- Ryukyu Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Ryukyu MouseDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost every entry in the reveal lands in the same high band, which tells you the puzzle rewards reach rather than precision: 6,485 of the 6,514 recorded answers cleared sixty points, and 6,295 of those sat at eighty-five. That middle tier is where competent, well-read answers live — the long descriptive species names that fill a museum checklist, such as Abert's Squirrel or Aba Horseshoe Bat, both worth eighty-five. The hundred-point pair sit apart because they are nearly impossible to arrive at by brainstorming: a single-species family described from a very limited range, and a small animal whose spine is famously reinforced, each rewarding whoever had read up on a taxonomic curiosity. Only 188 answers fell to sixty, presumably the everyday small mammals most players produce first. The lesson is that obscurity, not correctness, moves the score: a household name is valid but cheap, while a name almost nobody else can recall pays the maximum.